Sometimes I wonder

[hrj]

So I really do like being the office's "walking reference book for grammatical information, trivia, and odd facts". It's a fun little game and it gives people a non-threatening pigeonhole to stick some of my otherwise-potentially-annoying quirks in. But there are days when I have to ask, "What have these people done with their lives that they don't know these things?" Is it really that esoteric and arcane a bit of knowlege who and what the Faust is behind "Faustian bargain"? It's not a litmus test -- it's just an example. But a lot of them are like that. My sanity is currently being saved by the admin who's been temporarily stuck in our bullpen due to some office-moving limbo. She and I are on similarly off-kilter wavelengths a lot of the time and half the time we're the only ones who laugh at each others' jokes. Don't get me wrong, I get along just fine with my co-workers. Couldn't ask for better. But I crave people whose minds are stuffed with something other than basketball, shoes, and American Idol.